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Hi everyone, it's my first time posting on this forum. I'm planning on applying to PA school for the upcoming cycle. However, there's an issue with the biology pre-reqs I took from my school. All the schools I'm planning on applying to requires you to take gen biology 1&2. Unfortunately, my college that I attended do not offer those courses under those names and instead, states "Evolutionary Biology (Bio 200)" and "Cell Biology (Bio201). 

So I was wondering if PA schools will consider these courses I took as an exception and substitute it for their pre-reqs requirement.

P.S. If anyone is/was in a similar boat, please advise as well. 

Thank You!!

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This is really common, especially for lower level courses. The course name isn't as important as the content, the syllabus, and if those courses were considered pre-reqs for higher level courses. Depending on the state/school where you took those courses, some programs may even be familiar with that naming convention. If you're really concerned, you can email the course syllabus to a few different programs to get their approval.

Those course titles offered are generally how Gen Bio 1 and 2 are broken up anyway. One course covers basic cellular bio and the second course covers evolution/organism biology. This is exactly how the courses were split up in the Texas system. 

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